[Marius Shekow]

Regardless wether I open a project that has files in it or whether I just start AE and then Save an empty project, if I then (afterwards) try to open the preferences dialog, I’ll get that error dialog.

[Marius Shekow]

THANK YOU 🙂 !!!!

First of all, I did actually rename the OpenGL.AEX File, I dunno when and why, but it seemed to be a few months ago, shortly after I installed the CS3 suite.

Apart from that I must have been blind about the settings. I only looked at the first percentage value (“Maximum memory usage”) and forgot and somehow overlooked (O_o) the maximum RAM cache size which was set to 18,9 % (why did I enter that value back then? I dunno!) Now I’ve set it to 90% and I have not yet found a composition that is long enough for my system. Nucleo Pro rendered 30 secs of HD footage without problems.

Thank you all for your hints ! 😉

[Marius Shekow]

awesome, this is 100% what I needed. And it works fine 😉

Thanks a lot for this hint !

[Marius Shekow]

Hello again!

I think that I will be able to solve that problem rather easily, thanks to your solution, Kevin. I could simply add one of these expression controls (e.g. a slider or something like that) and increment its value each time a new avi clip starts. This way I will only need one text layer, and I won’t need to trim it either. And the effort of placing a keyframe at every inpoint of a avi clip layer is just about the same as when I had to apply (copy) an effect to all layers in the composition.

[Marius Shekow]

Hi,

well, unfortunately this will only show the name of the very first layer underneath the text layer. But I’d need the text to change each time a new clip is played.

To make it more clear: my timeline looks like this

To use your trick would mean that I’d have to place that text layer above every avi clip, and to also manually trim the text layers so that the texts don’t overlap. That’s the reason why I proposed to rather use an effect for this, because this will avoid that I’ll have to trim things manually (I’d consider it “manual” trimming even though there are keyboard shortcuts that make it faster).

Your solution is of course still faster than creating these texts all manually!).

However, I’m still looking for a ideal solution, maybe something like:
– don’t always take the next layer (own index + 1) but the first one that is active at the corresponding point of time, dunno if this is doable in the expression language
– an effect where I can keyframe the text

[Marius Shekow]

Can you tell me some names of these plugins? Are they purely for Aftereffects, or are there also some plugins for Premiere Pro?

The footage I use is shot in slowmotion as it is computer generated, so I can render it to image sequences having a speed that is like 10x slower than real-time, and then I speed it up to 10x speed to get it to real-time speed again. But there are just moments where I need it to be slowmo, so I set it’s speed from 10x down to 4x for example. Having so many extra frames needs these options that allow me to setup how the many additional frames (that otherwise wouldn’t be shown) are blended, for motion blur.

[Marius Shekow]

Hm, the problem here is that I actually want dynamic speeds of a clip because I want to synchronise it to background music. Usually working with AEs time remapping is OK, because it allows me to directly work with the timeline (I don’t actually work with velocity values here, I just do keyframes, drag them around, and use bezier keyframes to make the speed-transitions smoother). But the process of the “Time Warp” effect is different, as I do only work with the velocity value there, and not with the timeline directly. It would be very tedious to get the same result (the same speeds) using Time Warp and the time remapping effect.

And in the end, After Effects is not the choice of a program to synchronise clips to a movie, I think.

[Marius Shekow]

ah, thx very much. I didn’t realize how easy it could be using a slider.

But I found and even simpler solution:

just apply one slider (for the amount, the “amp”) to the layer that shall be wiggled. animate this slider and declare the slider as “amp”.
code looks like the following:

seedRandom(221, timeless = false);
amp=effect(“amount-slider”)(“Slider”);
wiggle(15,amp)

this works perfectly!

[Marius Shekow]

ah, thx very much. I didn’t realize how easy it could be using a slider.

But I found and even simpler solution:

just apply one slider (for the amount, the “amp”) to the layer that shall be wiggled. animate this slider and declare the slider as “amp”.
code looks like the following:

seedRandom(221, timeless = false);
amp=effect(“amount-slider”)(“Slider”);
wiggle(15,amp)

this works perfectly!

[Marius Shekow]

ditoo